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Re:Show HN: I am using AI to drop hats outside my window ont... by rzzzt on Sunday June 23, 2024 @01:32PM (#40769073)
Maybe it is easier to define what isn't AI? Toshiba's handwritten postal code recognizers from the 1970s? Fuzzy logic in washing machines that adjusts the pre-programmed cycle based on laundry weight and dirtyness?
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Re:Show HN: I am using AI to drop hats outside my window ont... by singpolyma3 on Sunday June 23, 2024 @06:07PM (#40771007)
Those both sound like AI to me

An example of similar computer can do that isn't AI would be arithmetic

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Re:Show HN: I am using AI to drop hats outside my window ont... by rzzzt on Monday June 24, 2024 @01:37PM (#40778731)
Adding two numbers, each having 100 digits? Reciting the fractional part of Π on and on? I have only seen that done by talented people appearing in TV shows. Seems AI.
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Re:Show HN: I am using AI to drop hats outside my window ont... by ska on Monday June 24, 2024 @10:25AM (#40776448)
Historically, we often call something AI while we don’t really understand how it works. After that it quietly gets subsumed into machine learning or another area and called X algorithm.
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